agglutination

UK:^*^*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/əˌɡluːtɪˈneɪʃən/

US:USA pronunciation: IPAUSA pronunciation: IPA/əˌglutənˈeɪʃən/

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(ə glo̅o̅t′n ā′shən)

ag•glu•ti•na•tion /əˌglutənˈeɪʃən/USA pronunciation n.

ag•glu•ti•na•tion (ə glo̅o̅t′n ā′shən),USA pronunciation n.

the act or process of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance.
the state of being thus united;
adhesion of parts.
that which is united;
a mass or group cemented together.
Immunologythe clumping of bacteria, red blood cells, or other cells, due to the introduction of an antibody.
Linguisticsa process of word formation in which morphemes, each having one relatively constant shape, are combined without fusion or morphophonemic change, and in which each grammatical category is typically represented by a single morpheme in the resulting word, esp. such a process involving the addition of one or more affixes to a base, as in Turkish, in which ev means "house,'' ev-den means "from a house,'' and ev-ler-den means "from houses.''

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agglutination /əˌɡluːtɪˈneɪʃən/ n

the act or process of agglutinating
a united mass or group of parts
the formation of clumps of particles in a suspension
the formation of a mass of particles, such as erythrocytes, by the action of antibodies
the building up of words from component morphemes in such a way that these undergo little or no change of form or meaning in the process of combination

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